women mentally tougher wrote:Meanwhile, the women didn't wimp out. Says something about how much mentally tougher women are, or maybe they focused on competing and pushing themselves, rather than obsessing about splits.

I watched the webcast, which was pretty lousy, other than that there were independent cameras for each race's leaders. The top two women had their own pacers, who ran IN FRONT OF THEM for about 26.1 miles, so they didn't have to face the winds at all. The winning guy broke from the pack when the rain began (AGAIN!) at about 1/2 way, so it's no wonder he ran "slowly" but it was gutsy.

women mentally tougher wrote:Meanwhile, the women didn't wimp out. Says something about how much mentally tougher women are, or maybe they focused on competing and pushing themselves, rather than obsessing about splits.